Family life in antiquity was a life of insecurity though families in many parts of the world still know this insecurity well even today The warm pictures we might concoct of ancient families mdash though certainly the ancients loved their children and spouses loved each other just as families do

The Greek word that refers to Jesus rsquo arrival most often translated as ldquo second coming rdquo is parousia The term was adopted by Christians from the common Greek usage and imperial Roman ideology of the day in which a city prepared for and eagerly anticipated the arrival of a major po

Sin is attractive I have watched a lot of television shows in my life and a lot more commercials and the one thing I know for certain is that sin is fun often accompanied by happy young women and men and there are no absolutely no consequences for bad behavior If you want to be justified in y

Remember when you were a child how little understanding you had of how things happened if they would happen or when they would happen When you were waiting for something you wanted like Christmas for example excited anticipation fused with a vague sense of time to make waiting a consuming reali

The baby Jesus still grabs our attention and the sweet obsession of the gypsy Yerko in Robertson Davies rsquo s The Rebel Angels for the ldquo Bebby Jesus rdquo reveals that deep attraction After a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where Yerko sees a medieval cr che scene he

Paul rsquo s First Letter to Timothy though many scholars doubt Paul wrote it reflects the heart of the Christian hope that Paul expressed in his letters ldquo Fight the good fight of the faith take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in